One-piece handle for angle cocks



March 3l. 1925. 1,531,610

c. M. HANNAFORD ONE-PIECE HANDLE FOR ANGLE COCKS Filed Dec. 5. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 C. M. HANNAFORD ONE-PIECE HANDLE FOR ANGLE COCKS March 31. 1925.

` Filed Dec. 5. 1923 @No L 1 w 131.

Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

CLEON M. HANNAFORD, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

oms-PIECE HANDLE non ANGLE cocks Application filed December 5, `1923. Serial No. 678,740.

To all whom it 'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, CLEoN M. HANNAFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Vir inia, have invented a certain new and use ul Improvement in One-Piece Handles for Angle Cocks, of kwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a handle for operating angle cocks which will protect the parts from the weather and .v foreign substances and simplify the replacement of the handle when broken or damaged without disturbing the connection of the handle socket with the key or plug. In connection with this last statement it is noted v that in the common standardized angle cock the handle socket and handle haveV been so constructed and assembled that in order to separate them and replace the handle it is necessary to disconnectthe socket from the key or plug by driving outthe pin that connects them, and the `handle has been made with openings to provide for this removal of the pin. My invention is designed to avoid the necessity 4for disconnecting the handle socket from the key or plug when the handle is to be removed.

The invention consists of a one-piece handle for angle cocks, characterized by a closed head which covers the handle socket, the protruding end of the key or plug and the pin which connects them, said handle having a pivotal movement on the handle socket, and also a slidin movement relative thereto in the absence o the pivot pin to effect the connection of the handle with the handle socket or its disconnection therefrom, regardless of the in which connects the handle socket andv ey or plug, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the inventionLin the several figures of which like parts are vsimilarly designated, Figure l is a side elevation showing an angle cock of ordinary construction provided with the handle of this invention.

Fig. '2 is a top plan view of a part of the handle detached and showing in dotted lines the handle socket, the square on the key or plug and lthe pin connecting the last' two. Fig. 3 is an inverted view of part of the handle. Fig. 4 is a cross section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.' Figs. 5, 6.and 7 are diagrammatic views, in elevation and at right angles `to Fig. 1, illustrating the manner of dissides. portion of the key or plug are connected by connecting the handle from the handle socket in accordance with this invention.

The angle cock 1 may be of any approved construction, the body of which is provided with the stop lugs 2. The key-or plug 3 is provided as usual with the squared portion 4, and on this squared portion is mounted,

in any usual way, the handle socket 5 having laterally projecting lugs 6 on opposite The handle socket and the squared the pin 7. This handle socket is also provided with the finger 8 which, in addition to any other function usual to this feature, cooperates with a recess 9 in the` handle so as to cause the handle socket and the key or plug to turn with the handle.

The handle has the gripping portion 10 and the head 11, this head being of inverted cup-shape and in one piece with the part 10 and closed in on top and circumferentially so as to make a closed cap or housing that covers and conceals the subjacent parts, so that they are shielded from the weather and other foreign matter and-also are protected from external violence.

Thehead 11 is provided with ears 12 pierced transversely and adapted to straddle the correspondingly pierced lug 13 on the handle socket, and these holes in the ears on the handle head and the lug on the handle socket are adapted to receive the pivot'pin 14 by which the handle is connected with the handle socket and is capable of an up and down pivotal motion on the handle socket. The handle head is provided with the depending lugs 15 which cooperate with the stop lugs 2 on the body of the cock to lock the handle in any given position on the body. Projections 16 extend horizontally and rearwardly from the bottom of the handle head to en age the projecting lugs 6 on the handle soc et to prevent the undue movement 0f the handle when it is lifted to clear the lugs 15 from the lugs 2 at the time the handle is to be turned to open or close the cock.

As will be seen by reference Iparticularly to Figs.A 2 and 3, the handle head is not a true circle but has a substantially fiat vertical wall at its rear where the ears 12 are in a wholly different way from they'usual. es already stated, it is not necessary to drive out the pin 7 .in order to disconnect the handle from the. handle socket,.but it is necessary to drive out the pin 14 only. Yllhen this pin 14.- is driven out, as indicated in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the handle is free to be tilted upwardly from the rear as indicated in Fig. 6, and then -by a forward `sliding movement in the directidn il grip, the parts 16 slide from under the lugs li and the handle is thereafter freentojbe removed .trom the handle. socket without disturbing the handle socket. The assembly of the handle and the handle socket iSfaccoinplislied by a siibstantiallyreverse series of movements to those jnst` described. The pin in the course et time becojnes correded or rusted so tight in place that 1 t is f quite difiicult to remove it, and frequently ""l and its adjuncts from the lodging of dirt,

ice, snow, rain, etc., asin this present invention: nor has a one-piece handle cock made with a socket-enclosingV head had integral with said head means ywhich the handle may be readily applied lto 'and removed from the handle socket by a sliding movement. Furthermore andA particularly when the handle has a closed head and the top ot the head has been made substantially fiat. there is afforded a Weightreceiving snriace to protect the subjacent parts from injury by a person steppingjthereon `for a weiglit` falling or being placed thereon.

I have thus described m invention as applied to a standard angle rcock equipment without changing any of the parts` exceptine the handle, but obviously ,the onepiec'e part-enclosing handle may be adapted to angle cocks of other makes than standard, and moreover, a handle of the deserib'ed cohstruction may be. applied to other devices than angle cocks. A' y A Variations in the details of construction and the arrangement of parts are permissible. within the principle of the inventin and the claims following.

What I claim is j 1. A one-piece handle for angle cocks having a head provided with projections eX- tendingl horizontally and rearwardly from its bottom, a handle socket having laterally pmi-@rating lugs, a valve key or plng to which the handle socket is attached, and interengaging means on the handle and handle socket to pivot the handle detachably to the handle socket, said handle being attachable to and removable from the handle socket. by ,manipulation of said pivoting means without disturbing the relation ot said socket and the key or plug and lengthwise. nnivementmc thehandle so as to clear its projections from the lugs on the socket.

i2. A one-piece handle for angle cocks, having a closed-in cup-shaped portion or lionsinjgwand rearwardly entending projectionsmadapted to engage Iwith lugs on a handle socket and to be disengaged there ltrom by a. sliding nioveinent in the direction of the length ol the handle wit-hout disturbing the handlesocket.

`3. A one-piece,handle for angle cocks, having an inverted enpshapcd head, and means to connect it with an ordinary handle socket .having .stop lugs, said lheed having at its bottoni` rearwardly extending projectionsadapted to be engaged with and disengaged from tlie stop by sliding movement of the handle in the, direction of its length ywithout disturbing the handle socket. I 4. lThe :combination a one-piece handle 'for angle cocks, having van, inverted cnpshaped head provided with rearwardly eX- tending earsv and with projections at its bottomhand a handle socket provided with a lug adapted to .be pivotally engaged with the ears von the handle and with laterally projecting stop lugs `adapted tocooperate with the projections on the head, the handle being separablerfrom fthe socket by removing the pivot pin andsliding the. handle in the direction of .its length from "oili lthe handle` socket, without disconnecting they handle socket froin the angle cock key or plug.

A one-piece self-locking handle for angle lcocks, havinga head provided with projections'extending horizontally and rear# wardly from Aits bottoni and also having a hinge element `and a connecting pin liinlgedlyl connecting it to the att-ermentioiied handle socket on vthe angle cock, a handleA socl'reth having coinpleniental hinge elements for the receptioiirof the connecting pin also having laterally extending lugs for cooperation with the projections on the head, whereby the handle is capable of being deafched from the handle socket by reinovingsaid connecting pin and moving tliehandlebnpwardly and transversely away from handlesockethin the direction of tlie length of tlie handle and without disturbing said socket. l In testimonyrwhereof I have `hereunto set my hand this V5th day of December, A. D. 1923.

4 CLEON M. HANNAFORD. Witnesses:

LiL'Li'E M. KELR,

H. F'ICKEi.. 

